The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2023 12 03

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Crooked cheat smuggling too many drugs in part of cell? CATHODE
Hot after moving around carefully THOROUGHLY
Letters from abroad satisfy revolutionary ETAS
Muses, perhaps, during meditation in east NINE
Nurse hands round peeled fig or bit of grape plant, say TENDRIL
Repeatedly running round Italy? It might make you cry ONION
Son is going to drink heartily SWILL
Spooner's put red meat in herbal seasoning BAYLEAF
Stage entertainment long before debut of opera PANTO
Story in vacuous action or sci-fi film ALIEN
Terrorise legless reveller ROISTERER
Twain book about sailor on whiskey TWOSOME
Copper seizing stolen garment from Asia DHOTI
Artful when packaging large pottery DELFT
Agitation of whistleblower turning workers tense FERMENT
What Jim Morrison did entrances FRONTDOORS
Spectacles in fair ground? There's singing about it VARIFOCALS
Somewhat disheartened accountant getting sack ATRIFLE
Show audacity -- hear setter put on weight TRYITON
More corpulent bishop I introduced to King Edward? TUBBIER
Hollywood celeb not in shot after parting remark TARANTINO